Xue Boling temporarily named Casrelia the City of Two Rivers because it was the intersection of the two rivers.
After leaving three hundred soldiers behind, the Ming army continued downstream with the surrendered Cossacks.
Zhang Zongling led a brigade to the Yenisei River Basin.
The team included surveyors from the Ministry of Railways.
They walked very slowly because the surveyors had to walk all the way to explore.
Zhang Zongling divided the team into two parts and led two battalions.
Go first and be responsible for cleaning up any enemies that may be encountered along the way.
In addition, a battalion commander and soldiers will accompany the people from the Railway Department to slowly explore.
Zhang Zongling arrived at Heyang first, where the Ming army who stayed behind had cut down some more trees and were building more houses.
Zhang Zongling said curiously: "Why do we need to build houses if there are not enough houses?"
The battalion commander who stayed behind said: "General Xue said that more troops will be coming later, so there is nothing wrong with repairing some houses and preparing some wood first."
Zhang Zongling said with a smile: "This old Xue is thinking long-term, but this place is good.
If the railway passes through here, it will be necessary to build more houses."
The battalion commander said: "General Xue took some Cossacks to Kasrelia.
I heard that there was a large group of Rakshasa people there, but they should be eliminated by General Xue now."
Zhang Zongling said: "I will go to Kasrelia first, and there will be people from the Ministry of Railways responsible for exploration behind me.
You will take care of them when the time comes."
By the time he arrived at Casrelia, Xue Boling had already left.
Zhang Zongling looked around Shuanghe City and said with a smile: "This should be it.
From my layman's perspective, I can tell that this is a suitable station, but a bridge needs to be built here."
Zhang Zongling lived in the fortress, then sent people to report Cao Wenzhao, and he led people to start farming near Shuanghe City.
This place is still far away from the railway, so it would be best to be able to solve some food problems on the spot.
Cao Wenzhao received Zhang Zongling's letter and knew that he had found the confluence of the two rivers mentioned by the emperor, so he immediately wrote a memorial and sent it back to the capital.
Zhu Youxiao ordered the Railway Ministry to immediately begin transporting personnel and equipment to Beihai and begin preparations for railway construction.
At the same time, the Ministry of Industry and the Highway Commission jointly formed the Ming Northern Construction Trading Co., Ltd. and began to explore for ores near the Beihai.
They required the construction of enough cement plants and steel plants within one year for the Ming Dynasty Royal Roads and Bridges Bureau to build a railway on the Yenisei River. bridge and a road bridge.
Because of the Beijing-North Railway, the train from Beijing to Beihai only takes three days and ten hours.
The transportation capacity of the train far exceeded that of animal power, let alone human power, so after the emperor issued the decree, a month later, various groups of people had arrived in Beihai.
During this period, the surveyors of the Ministry of Railways had determined the railway route from Beihai to Shuanghe City.
People from the Northern Construction Trading Company began exploration and soon found a large iron mine and a coal mine near Heyang.
The construction of the Heyang Steel Plant began quickly.
The Indian laborers and the Buryat laborers summoned by Shi Kefa endured hardships and endured hardships.
Stimulated by sufficient food and high wages, they burst out with great enthusiasm for work, which made the steel plant The construction situation is changing with each passing day.
According to the estimates of the designers of the Ordnance Bureau, rail production can begin within half a year.
At the same time, the immigration work of the Ministry of Agriculture is also being carried out in an orderly manner.
There is a large amount of wasteland near Heyang City and Shuanghe City.
The soil fertility here is far more fertile than that in the Ming Dynasty.
The Ministry of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Ministry of Household Affairs, organized about 30,000 households in Henan to immigrate to these two places.
The conditions of ten years of tax exemption and free housing and livestock tools are not unreasonable, so the Chief Secretary in Henan, a country with a large population and relatively small land, is still very attractive.
There are 110,000 immigrants from 30,000 households.
The Ministry of Agriculture estimates that these 110,000 people can provide food for at least 200,000 people next year.
Next year, all the people here, including the army, including those who build railways and roads , a total of no more than 250,000 people.
As a result, the amount of domestic food that needs to be transported here will be greatly reduced, and the railway will free up a lot of transportation capacity to transport more other materials and commodities.
At this time, after being separated from Xue Boling, Sun Fumin's troops finally came to a place called Tomsk, which was a town along the Tomi River.
They had wooden houses of the same color, and even their city walls were made of wood. of.
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Sun Fumin's Ministry has not seen any focused villages and towns for more than a month, and the Ming army's food supply has also begun to reduce to near the warning line.
If the food problem is not solved locally, it will have to return in half a month, so it looks like When they arrived in the town, the Ming army was in high spirits.
The Ming army soon surrounded the fortress, and a Buriyat man came forward and started shouting, nothing more than surrendering without killing.
Several arrows were fired from the fortress, killing the Buriyat on his horse.
Sun Fumin was furious and began to attack with artillery.
At this time, the gate of the fortress opened, and a group of Cossack cavalry rushed out of the door.
There were about a thousand Cossack cavalry.
They were dressed in clothes that seemed strange to the Ming army.
They were lying on their horses and shouting, and the sabers in their hands shone with cold light.
The formation of the Ming army had already been arranged, and Sun Fumin personally commanded it.
When the Cossack cavalry was two hundred steps away, he waved his hand and rifled firecrackers began to fire.
After a burst of firecrackers, more than a dozen The Cossack fell off his horse.
The other Cossack cavalry were not affected at all and continued to rush towards the Ming army.
When they were a hundred steps away from the Ming army, Sun Fumin waved his hand for the second time, and three rows of muskets fired at the same time, and then retreated, with the three rows behind him firing.
The gunman stepped forward, fired, and then stood there holding the gun and pointing it in front.
A large amount of smoke filled the front of the position.
After the smoke slowly dissipated, a large group of Cossacks were seen rushing over.
Sun Fumin shouted "hold on", and the Ming army pointed the bayonet in front of the musket at the Cossack soldiers on horseback.
Stabbed over.
But the huge impact deflected the bayonet belt to one side, and then knocked the owner of the bayonet to the ground.
Sun Fumin shouted: "Fire, and then use bayonets to attack the enemy."
The messenger next to him blew his whistle, and a sharp whistle sounded.
The Ming army that had retreated and loaded its ammunition pointed its blunderbuss at the Cossack soldiers on horseback.
Fire, then move forward with your bayonet pointed at the empty space in the front row, and people tightly fall on the comrades in front to resist the impact of the cavalry.
Sun Fumin shouted: "Get ready for the artillery."
The artillerymen took the artillery off their horses, quickly positioned it, then loaded the cannonballs and aimed them at the Cossack troops in front
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